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Call for Papers: Title IX and Transgender Rights
by Title IX Blog
posted August 7, 2012 at 6:58pm

An editor at the The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society has asked us to post this call for proposals for its 2013 Symposium, "Transcending Gender Lines: Title IX and Transgender Rights" scheduled for February 2013: The 1972 Education Amendmen...more

London's High Court permits Female Canoeist's lawsuit to proceed
by WomenCANIntl
posted July 21, 2012 at 10:27pm

On Thursday, London's High Court granted permission for British National Sprint Canoe Champion Sam Rippington's lawsuit to proceed.  In addition, "The IOC and the Olympic Delivery Authority have been ordered to be joined as interested parties. The ca...more

LOCOG Deflects Equality Responsibilities
by WomenCANIntl
posted July 20, 2012 at 2:12pm

LOCOG continues to deflect equality responsibilities. See article in"The Guardian."  http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/19/london-2012-japan-australia-sexism.  British National Champion Canoeist Samantha Rippington is not asking for...more

FEMALE CANOEIST TAKES OLYMPIC INEQUALITY TO COURT
by WomenCANIntl
posted July 19, 2012 at 1:00am

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***   FEMALE CANOEIST TAKE OLYMPIC INEQUALITY TO COURT CLAIMS LOCOG IS IN BREACH OF EQUALITY ACT 2010 Samantha Rippington (Left in photo), an elite female canoeist from Reading, will today launch a High Court challenge to th...more

Fifth Summit on Communication and Sport: Recap and Research Review
by Sports, Media & Society
posted April 4, 2012 at 8:21pm

The latest rumor, the latest fumbled play, the latest major trade; when it happens in sports, it’s likely to happen via social media. As fans become professional bloggers and Twitter becomes a source for receiving to-the-minute news, sports organiza...more

Gender and coaching women’s basketball, Part II
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted April 1, 2012 at 9:02am

  I had no sooner pushed the button on yesterday’s post on the issue of gender and coaching women’s basketball than ESPN The Magazine, as part of the Worldwide Leader’s flood the zone Title IX coverage, published “The Glass W...more

Research on attitudes toward girls' participation
by Title IX Blog
posted February 24, 2012 at 8:39pm

A recently published (June 2011) research note on  attitudes toward participation opportunities for girls in sports found that high school students are generally supportive of providing sport opportunities for girls. The research, done by Marni Brown...more

Jablonski v. Privette: Gender Equity Fails Again
by One Sport Voice
posted January 11, 2012 at 12:27pm

In my last blog, following severe injuries of two MN high school hockey players, I argued checking should be banned at all levels and for all hockey players. Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Rachel Blount wrote a piece title “Despite tragedies, ho...more

Putting paralympic athletes in the spotlight
by Sports, Media & Society
posted December 10, 2011 at 10:03am

The mainstream media are still falling behind in covering disability sports and the network of resources for athletes with disability is far from perfect, but a new blog carries a promise of making things better. Athletes First: Sporting Abilities and Op...more

Sport Scandals, Sexy Babes & Social Responsibility
by One Sport Voice
posted December 1, 2011 at 1:02pm

As I posted previously, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a host of stimulating conferences and conversations in the past eight weeks related to girls and women in sport. I’m still musing about many things, but here are three I’...more

Acknowledging the price of college athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 17, 2011 at 2:26pm

ESPN the Magazine recently teamed up with MIT researchers to determine the value of college athletes at Florida University. (The article can also be found here through ESPN’s Insider service.) The results shouldn’t be surprising to anybody who knows ...more

3 Concrete Actions That Can Make a Difference for Girls & Women in Sport
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 14, 2011 at 12:18pm

On November 2, 2011 we, the Tucker Center, hosted a one day conference on creating change for girls and women in sport. There was a great deal of dialogue amongst participants as to how to achieve such change. You can see the collage of pictures from our...more

University of York Centre for Women's Studies: Call for Papers on Sport, Gender and Media
by anngaff
posted November 9, 2011 at 11:41am

The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York (UK) invites all postgraduate and early career researchers interested in gendered aspects of sport to a one-day interdisciplinary conference.  This is a growing academic field which add...more

A New, Old Model of Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted November 8, 2011 at 2:44am

Since I returned from the espnW Summit a month or so ago, coupled with the WNBA Champions Minnesota Lynx win and the media treatment of their season, the conference the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport just hosted about creating change...more

Tucker Center conference calls for change in media representation of female athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 5, 2011 at 3:15pm

Collaboration. Dialogue. Community building. These were the mission statements that the Girls and Women in Sport and Physical Activity Conference participants committed to when they chose to gather for a full day of activities in the TCF Bank Stadium in...more

Comparing male and female athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted October 10, 2011 at 9:48pm

While talking with a reporter today about WNBA Champions the Minnesota Lynx, I had a realization…it most likely isn’t new, but I’d never thought about selective comparisons between male and female athletes in quite this way before. Comparisons bet...more

Sport for Development and Peace - How much good are we doing?
by The Rabbit Hole
posted October 10, 2011 at 3:52pm

I was first introduced to the concept of sport for development and peace (SDP) in 2005. I stumbled upon the United Nations website at a time when I was struggling with reconciling the knowledge that people in this world suffer on a daily basis largely b...more

Female athletes and concussions explored in ground-breaking documentary by U of M's Tucker Center and Twin Cities station
by anngaff
posted October 7, 2011 at 12:06pm

Via Release MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/03/2011) —In collaboration with the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) Channel 2 has produced a ground-breaking, one-hou...more

1904 Film of Women's College Basketball - 107 Years Ago
by LostCentury
posted September 26, 2011 at 2:16pm

Earliest Film of Women's College Basket Ball, May 10, 1904, Missouri Valley College, by American Mutoscope & Biograph Co....more

"Mediating Baseball" and "Sports Scandals" among In Media Res' fall topics
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 26, 2011 at 2:12am

The innovative media and textual criticism site, In Media Res (about) has listed two sports media topics among its Fall 2011 calls for curators -- "Mediating Baseball" and "Sports Scandals." The "Mediating Baseball" pieces will be published on the week o...more

Athletes: Are We Fooling Ourselves?
by Becca Rorabaugh
posted September 23, 2011 at 10:34am

This spring I was listening to a podcast about lying, and there was a brief mention about the best athletes practicing self-deception in order to perform better.  For example, a successful track and field athlete claims to repeat ‘I am the best...more

Curley Center Chat Addresses Coverage of Initial Eligibility
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 23, 2011 at 9:55am

While NCAA rules limit when a college coach can talk about an incoming student-athlete, media members almost invariably focus on standout high school students headed for college or pursue in-depth stories about recruiting.Along with those somewhat opposin...more

Report: College athletes with scholarships live in poverty
by HoopFeed.com
posted September 13, 2011 at 5:19pm

A report from the National College Players Association called “The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sport” examines the costs of student-athlete expenses with the salaries of coaches and athletic administrators. The NCPA and Drexel University Dep...more

Women's Basketball League formed in New Orleans in 1894
by LostCentury
posted August 25, 2011 at 4:21pm

1894 Newspaper article announces the formation of a women's basketball league in New Orleans, Louisiana....more

Heads Up Academics - Call for Papers: The Athletic Issue
by From A Left Wing
posted August 23, 2011 at 8:43pm

Call for Proposals, Special Issue of GLQ: The Athletic Issue Jennifer Locke, Black/White (2009) This issue aims to collate interdisciplinary queer scholarship on sports and physical culture. This work should engage major issues in contemporary criticis...more

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